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Rob Knop's Blog -- ramblings and rants about astronomy, cosmology, science education, general nerdism, and anything else.

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Rob Knop earned a PhD in Physics from Caltech in 1997, and did a 5-year post-doc with the Supernova Cosmology Project, and contributed to the discovery of the accelerating Universe. He was an assistant professor of Physics & Astronomy at Vanderbilt for 6 years before scattering out of academia. He now works for Linden Lab, the producers of Second LIfe. (Note: this is not an official site of Linden Lab! Although I work for Linden Lab, all content in this blog is posted without the review or approval of Linden Lab. All statements and opinions expressed here are my own.)

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Starting a new blog

Since this blog has shut down (and, really, after this post there will be no more new posts here), I've started up a new blog whose focus will be slightly different. Go check out my new blog, Second Sight, if...

UPDATE : memory hole *not* coming

My overlords at scienceblogs.com have informed me that they will, in fact, maintain the archives of Galactic Interactions indefinitely. Thanks to them! They are really a class outfit....

Note: warning of impending memory hole

My Seed overlords have let me know that as I have decided to no longer continue this blog, I won't be able to keep the backlogs here indefinitely. Sometime in the next couple of months, the archives will disappear from...

Blog going on indefinite hiatus

I am going to take a break from astronomy blogging for an indefinite period of time. I'm finding that as I'm involved in my new job, while I still do get a charge out of posts like the Big Bang...

Offline for a few more days

I"m sorry the blog's been so quiet recently. With my new job, and my trip out to SF getting started at Linden these last two weeks, I've been quite busy! Things won't settle down until next week, as I'm off...

Several comments just published

I realized that I had several comments that hadn't been flagged as "junk," but which had been flagged for moderation. I don't see those much, so I haven't been looking for them. As such, several of them have been sitting...

Write us up in Wikipedia!

Hey, all of y'all's, go head forth to Wikpedia's Scienceblogs.com entry, and make it as good as you can. Please say nice things about me. PZ just announced on his blog that people should go and edit the site, and...

On the road

I will be on the road for the next 3 days, so you are unlikely to hear from me....

Blog break

I'm going to take a week and a half or so off. More posts after I'm back....

No, really, it's true! New ScienceBloggers!

Everybody welcome Mark Hoofnagle and Chris Hoofnagle (probably not their real names) of Denialism who are here to spread more of the commonly accepted lies about the truth of evolution, the Big Bang, gravity, 2+2=4, etc., that we in the...

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